Designing a flexible ICT framework for processing remote gauging-data

In environmental ecosystem research, there is a trend towards sharing research sites infrastructure among project partners when carrying out individual or common projects. As a result a growing number of so-called research platforms are established. In order to take advantage of most of the potential synergies between project partners an adequate ICT infrastructure must be provided. This paper describes an ICT application which fully automates the workflow from measuring parameters in remote gauging stations up to storing validated time-series in a database. The main focus is on designing an appropriate database, but issues of software design and necessary standardization are also included.